Everyone’s Got a Plan
Until They Get Punched in the Mouth

Everyone’s Got a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth

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Plans are Great … Until They Aren’t

Mike Tyson understands what it means to have your well-laid-out plan squandered by the enemy (in his case literally being punched in the face).

How do you respond when your calendar becomes a naive list of fantasies? When your well-intentioned project morphs into a severely delayed set of ideas that will likely never come to fruition?

In other words, when life happens, how do you respond?

In this week’s episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast I discuss how to respond proactively to life’s twists, turns, and punches in the mouth. We have more control than we realize, even in the moments when we feel like we have absolutely nothing to offer.

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode

  1. The 5 AM Miracle [Book by Jeff Sanders]
  2. The Free-Time Formula [Book by Jeff Sanders]
  3. Obsessed, Angry, and Ruthless: Getting More Done with Intensity [Episode #155]
  4. Why 25-Year Plans are Worthless and How to Design Your Life Without One [Episode #31]
  5. You Don’t Plan Enough: The Killer Importance of a Detailed Action List [Episode #144a]

– jeff sanders

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